CRUISE CREDITS SCIENTOLOGY WITH FIXING HIS DYSLEXIA

Last updated: Monday, January 5, 2009

CRUISE CREDITS SCIENTOLOGY WITH FIXING HIS DYSLEXIA

TOM CRUISE has credited his Scientology faith with helping him overcome dyslexia - insisting he was illiterate until he followed the teachings of the controversial religion's founder L. RON HUBBARD.

Tom Cruise at Los Angeles Premiere of 'Valkyrie' held at The Directors Guild of America, Los Angeles, California - 18.12.08

The Hollywood superstar struggled with literacy at school, and resigned to the fact he would struggle with reading and writing after he was diagnosed with the language-based disability aged seven.

And Cruise admits he walked away from school as an illiterate - and blames the school system for failing him.

But the star states it was science-fiction writer Hubbard's methods of learning and the ideas behind Scientology that finally enabled him to get a grasp of his learning difficulties.

He tells Spanish newspaper ABC, "I asked myself if I was normal or an idiot. I would try to concentrate but I felt anxiety, frustration, boredom. When I graduated from high school in 1980 I was functionally illiterate.

"Nobody gave me a solution and I wanted to know why the system had failed. Finally, as an adult I learned to read perfectly through the method of L. Ron Hubbard."

Source: WENN

| Monday, January 5, 2009

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